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Not necessarily. You could make the CSRF request on, for example, 80 percent of the views to make it look legit. You could even take a more sophisticated approach and start by automatically upvoting for 100 percent of logged in users just to get on the front page and dampening once your story rises in the rankings.

And if any users notice your account and domain are banned. Not saying it shouldn't be fixed but I doubt you would have much luck exploiting this at any scale.

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